The culturally competent teacher should be able to use a variety of assesment techniques appropriate to diverse learners and accommodate sociocultural differences that affect learning.



While working with my groups i learned that all children have a different style of learning. One child in my group found it easier to learn rhyming by using the pictures in the game where as another found is easier to lean this skill by replacing the first letter of the words. The children i have been working with during my time at the school have come to accept different ways of learning. During the group work i tried atleast three different teaching methods. With my groups everyweek i tried getting the skill of rhyming taught to the kids by using books, games and word games. I saw that by using these three methods the children began to progress and become more fluent at rhyming.

All children learn is a different way so as a teacher you must be able to provide to your best ability different learning techniques to the children in your classroom. Teachers are going to run into these kinds of situations a lot and therefore they must have knowledge of differnt techniques they may use in a classroom. I would relate this prompt to the work of Ira Shor.

In "Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change" by Ira Shore he talks about how teachers should approach teaching in many different ways. He also goes on to talk about how the relationship between teacher and student can also help with how well a student learns. The more a teacher can relate to a student and make him or her feel comfortable the more the student will open up and connect with the teacher. Shor also goes on to compare the differnt types of teaching that people use today. Overall he gets into deep thought about how teachers should be able to adapt to different kinds of teaching and by doing so they will not only better themselves but all the learning of the students.